Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles.

Word forms

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effects Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect

Etymology

Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.

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